Melissa Shield
Identity: Melissa Shield, Public Identity.
Gender: Female.
Age: 18.
Height: 1.69 meters.
Weight: Unknown.
Eyes: Aqua blue.
Hair: Blonde.
Skin: Fair.
Quirk Type: Quirkless.
Group: I-Island scientists.
Base of Operations: I-Island.
Power Level 2 (PL 3 Fortitude and Will) - 41 Character Points
Abilities
Strength 0, Agility 0, Fighting 2, Awareness 1
Stamina 1, Dexterity 1, Intellect 3, Presence 1
Advantages
Close Attack, Inventor
Skills
Athletics 2 (+2 total).
Deception 2 (+3 total).
Expertise (Science) 6 (+9 total).
Insight 2 (+3 total).
Perception 4 (+5 total).
Persuasion 4 (+5 total).
Technology 10 (+13 total).
Offense
Initiative +0
Unarmed +3, close damage 0.
Defense
Dodge 1, Fortitude 2, Parry 3, Toughness 1, Will 4
Complications
Motivation: To Become an Inventor!: To compensate for her lack of powers, Melissa was taught to engineer and create support items by her father David from a young age, gaining a passion for doing so. She wishes to help those around her with her inventing, by creating support items for heroes and technology to assist humanity.
Quirkless: Melissa is quirkless, something that is rarer each generation that goes by, with only around 20% of people being quirkless these days. Due to this, Melissa could be seen as an easy victim for mockery and bullying by certain groups.
18 Abilities, 0 Powers, 1 Advantages, 15 Skills, 7 Defenses = 41 Character Points
About: Pretty much the only quirkless person we are introduced to in the story, Melissa Shield is the daughter of famous quirk scientist and former All Might sidekick, David Shield, and is a student at I-Island Academy, studying quirk science and support item development, hoping to one day become a capable inventor who can develop support items for pro heroes. Growing up quirkless, Melissa faced many insecurities and difficulties, deciding to find a way to help others in her own way, and, with the help of her father, dedicating herself to mastering quirk sciences.
When Melissa found out she was quirkless as a child, her father David tried to console her by telling her that his quirk was nothing special either, but that did little to quell her insecurities. It would only be days later, when All Might came to visit I-Island, that she learned of her father being the one responsible for developing and improving All Might's costumes.
Shortly after his arrival, however, a storm appears to threaten I-Island, making All Might spring into action and blow it away with his quirk, causing Melissa to think to herself about how she will never be able to become a hero and do stuff like that without a quirk, as she goes to congratulate the hero. However, surprising her, All Might instead draws attention to how his costume was completely undamaged despite the disaster he faced, and how it's only because of David Shield's work that he is able to save people and do hero work without worry, saying that David is his hero. Melissa's father then tells her that, despite not being a hero and not having a quirk suitable for hero work, that he still managed to find his own way to save people and help those in need, inspiring Melissa and creating in her the desire to do the same so she can become a hero in her own way.
Melissa applied herself to her dream, studying support item development and quirk science under her father's tutelage from a young age, and managing to become an extremely competent inventor even as a teenager, enrolling into I-Island Academy to deepen her studies of quirk science and, hopefully, one day, officially join I-Island's science team.
During the first movie, Melissa is the one to invite All Might, whom she affectionately calls Uncle Might, and a guest to I-Expo, I-Island's exposition of science, inventions and support items, hoping to surprise her father, who hasn't seen the hero in a long time. When All Might and Midoriya arrive at the island, Melissa comes to greet them, as the hero introduces the two teens to one another. The trio then make their way to David Shield's lab, as the inventor is shocked to see his longtime friend, and Midoriya, shocked to meet All Might's very first sidekick, starts rambling about him. The four then separate, as David suggests the teens go see the Expo so he and All Might can catch up.
While showing the inventions and items to Midoriya, the two end up running into various Class 1-A students around the expo who were coincidentally also visiting the island, and all join up with each other, giving Melissa the opportunity to get to know and hang out with the hero students. They all then decide to go together to the reception party at the end of the day, separating so they can all go get ready for it, tho Melissa tells Midoriya to come with her to her lab at the Academy before heading to his room.
As the two arrive at her lab, Midoriya asks Melissa if she wants to be a pro hero, prompting her to reveal the fact that she is quirkless, shocking the hero student, but she then tells him that she doesn't mind, since she still wants to help and save others through the development of support items. She then tells Midoriya that she noticed the scars on his hands and how his quirk is damaging to his body, giving him one of her inventions, the Full Gauntlet, which is a band of metal that wraps around his arm and nullifies the side effects of his quirk, but has a limited number of uses before it gives out and breaks. Midoriya then thanks her profusely, and makes his way to his room.
Later, the teenagers all meet up at the entrance to the reception party, as everyone is wowed by each other's formal wear. However, before this can continue, however, I-Island's security alarm goes off as the island enters full lockdown mode, jamming all cellphone signals and deactivating all elevators and doors, making everyone realize that the reception party was probably invaded by villains, who are hacking into the Island's security system.
Moving into the upper floors and looking down on the party through a glass floor, Midoriya gets All Might's attention with a flashlight, and through Jiro's enhanced hearing, All Might explains to the group that a group of villains invaded the Island and took David and his assistant, Samuel, as hostages, planning to force them to reveal the location of one of their most valued inventions, the Quirk Amplification Device.
Wanting to save her father, as the hero students are discussing what to do, Melissa tells the group she can reset the security system and free the pro heroes so they can help if she can get to the terminal at the top floor of the island. The other teens tell her it's too dangerous for someone quirkless to go there, since the tower is still filled with villains, but Melissa states that she is the only one who knows how to reactivate the security system, and that she needs to save the people of the island, forcing the group to reluctantly accept.
As the group make their way through the tower, they are forced to split up as they run into hijacked security robots and members of Wolfram's crew, separating so the hero students can buy time as Midoriya and Melissa continue to climb the tower. As the two approach the top floor of the tower, having just escaped a very dangerous encounter with a large swarm of security robots, Melissa and Midoriya are ambushed by Swordkil, whose surprise attack nearly pushes Midoriya off the window, but Melissa jumps toward the villain, distracting him for just enough time for the hero student to recover himself and take Swordkil down in a single blow, allowing the pair to continue.
The two then run into Wolfram himself, together with David and Samuel. Surprised by his daughter's sudden arrival, David reveals that he was working with Wolfram all along, and that they were just hired to stage a heist so he could recover the Quirk Amplification Device and give it to All Might, so the pro hero could recover from his damages and return to his prime, and that Wolfram's crew were just fake villains all along. Confused by this, Melissa reveals to David the dangers she faced while climbing the tower, confusing the inventor, and prompting Sam to give the Quirk Amplification Device to Wolfram. The assistant then tells David that he was actually the one who was hired by the villains who wanted to device, and that he felt like he needed to betray David due to them never having gotten paid by the invention.
After getting the device, Wolfram shoots Samuel in the arm, taunting him by saying he never had agreed to pay him, and attempts to shoot him again, only for David Shield to jump in the way of the bullet. As the villain starts his escape, having the two wounded scientists as hostages, Midoriya tells Melissa he will save them, and that she needs to regain control of the security system so the other pro heroes can fight as well. Determined and trusting Midoriya, Melissa makes her way to the computer, easily disabling the security system and the hacking done by Wolfram's crew, allowing the heroes and other students to make their way through the tower unblocked by the robots, proceeding to call All Might to tell him about the situation and asks for his help, as he easily scales the tower.
Melissa then watches in awe as the heroes fight off against a Wolfram now empowered by the Quirk Amplification Device, as Midoriya and All Might manage to overpower him by delivering a synchronized powerful Smash attack, breaking Midoriya's Full Gauntlet, knocking Wolfram out, and allowing them to rescue the two scientists. David thanks All Might for saving him, but All Might tells him that the real heroes are Melissa and Midoriya, as the pair watches them over from afar, and allows David to realize that his fears of the Symbol of Peace disappearing were baseless, and that the future will be in good hands lead by both of their successors.
Melissa also later makes a brief appearance in the Team Up Mission spinoff manga, where she goes to visit U.A. and forms a rivalry with Hatsume Mei, as the two force the hero students to test their support items in an attempt to compete with each other, leading to disastrous results. By the end of it, the two form a mutual respect, as they admit to the talent of the other, which is a small story I really liked.
Melissa is probably one of the best parts of the Two Heroes movie, which, in case my huge rant from forever ago didn't make clear, I am not a big fan of. She is a very likable character, with her optimistic and determined personality, and fulfills the role of a friend to Midoriya in a very unique way, as a quirkless person who also has heroic ambitions like him, but had to find a different way to fulfill her dream, especially with the importance the movie placed on David as a support item developer for All Might.
Not a lot to say about this build except that this is the first Hero Academia build I've done that used zero character points on Powers! I considered giving her some of the inventions she uses throughout the movie, like her pogo stick, but since it was a very one-off thing, I decided against it. Gave her only 2 ranks of fighting, since she doesn't seem to be very good at it, but also not completely inept, managing to hold off Swordkil for only a few seconds with a surprise attack, and gave her a very high Technology bonus, for obvious reasons.
Outfits: Melissa's usual attire is a white dress shirt with a pink coat and beige capri pants. She also wears a large plaid bow on her chest over the coat, a pair of tall plaid socks and a pair of tall brown boots.
